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Often Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often…
- Often does hatred hurt itself.
- But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must…
- I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that…
- For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as…
- He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every…
- Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were…
- And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
- Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How…
- History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
- He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything;…
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- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
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